28/02/2022 - The regional investment fund is throwing its weight behind 13 new projects, including the new movie by the directors of Madly in Life which bagged the Magritte for Best Film

Directors Ann Sirot and Raphaël Balboni, whose new project (Ex)perience of Love has been selected (© Aurore Engelen/Cinevox)

In its 18th session, screen.brussels has awarded aid to 13 audiovisual projects, of which 8 are feature films. Amongst them, we find (Ex)perience of Love [+see also:
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film profile], which is the latest film put forth by the duo composed of Ann Sirot and Raphaël Balboni, who just won an impressive 7 Magritte awards for their first feature film Madly in Life [+see also:
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film profile]. The movie will be produced by Hélicotronc (in co-production with Tripode Films in France), who are also supporting another project selected in this session, Chiennes de vie [+see also:
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interview: Xavier Seron
film profile], by Xavier Seron, who is returning 6 years after his first feature film Death by Death [+see also:
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interview: Xavier Seron
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Three first features are also receiving support off the back of this 18th session. The multi-faceted artist Baloji (filmmaker, musician, artistic director) is making the leap to feature films with Omen [+see also:
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interview: Baloji
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The self-same David Lambert (Beyond the Walls [+see also:
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interview: David Lambert
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interview: David Lambert
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Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon (Rumba [+see also:
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interview: Charles Gillibert
interview: Dominique Abel and Fiona Go…
film profile], Lost in Paris [+see also:
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interview: Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon
film profile]) are hard at work on their 5th feature, The Falling Star [+see also:
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interview: Dominique Abel & Fiona Gordon
film profile], which they’re producing in Belgium by way of their own firm Courage mon amour in co-production with France’s Moteur S’il Vous Plait.

Last but not least, animated feature Sirocco and the Kingdom of the Winds [+see also:
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(Translated from French)